National Republican., 1887-02-04
SENIOR ROMERO NOT TO BLAME.

published Mr.. Childers sent TO the Chicago
Tribune the following card:
SENIOR ROMERO NOT TO BLAME.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2S --EDiToR OF THE "TRI-
BuNE."-1n your to-day's issue, under the head.
ing OF "The United States and Mexico" your
reporter without misrepresenting the main
points, has misunderstood me In some particu-
lars and thereby placed me In a light that l
cannot consistently. accept. Mr.. Manning's
remarks of himself, quoted in parenthesis,
though correct were not made to me person.
ally With reference to the Sedgwiok affair as
having been prearranged, &C., by Minister
Rome 70, l stated that such was my impression
the morning after the famous jockey club ball.
believing then that man selected from among
q people of so much intelligence as special
envoy upon such an important mission las
then conceived this to be) could not by any
ordinary means have been placed In position
TO receive such indignities as were heaped
upon him. but that the subsequent actions of
said, envoy had led me TO regard the "selec-
tion" as bad one, and that the jockey
club alter all was not entirely to blame.
i regard Senior Romero as one of Mexico's
ablest statesman aud certainly her greatest
diplomatic, in which latter sphere this CONT
nent has few equals and no superior The
information regarding Mr. Sedgwlck's high
diplomacy, then believed to have been for.
warded by Senior Romero, together with some
statistical matter relating to his (Sedgwick's)
conduct wilhelm Washington the preceding
winter.
To the question as to how Minister Manning
was regarded by the American residents of
Mexico, said that had not had an express
sion from them; but, In my opinion, the coun-
try was poorly represented, as l have been
reliably Informed that he (Mr. Manningl was u
slave to intoxicants. ! further stated In said
interview that Consul General ]. W. Porch was
an active and efficient officer, aud without
doubt the right man in the right place.
J. w. CHILDERs.
A reporter Of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
called last evening at the Mexican legation
TO ask Senior Romero II he had seen the pre-
coding article, and he said That on the
terview was published in the Chicago
Tribune, Mr.. Childers thought 1t due to
him to correct the mistakes that the re-
porter had made. In q card addressed by
him to the Tribune, and published by that
paper in its issue Of the 3lst ultimo, he
says, that, although he once thought differ
emily, he now believes that Senior Romero
had nothing to do with the Sedgwick Incl
dent. Although Senor Romero thought
that that ought to be enough to set this
matter at rest, he added that he never had
the honor Of meeting Mr.. Sedgwick, or Of
being in any way acquainted with him,
either before or after his appointment as
special envoy to Mexico, and he confesses
that he had the misfortune of having never
heard Mr.. Sedgwick's name mentioned be.
fore his appointment.
DuJ even SuppOslUp tuuJ ue utu Dteu
well acquainted with Mr.. Sedgwick and that
he had known OF his alleged habits Of In
temperance, which he neveriknew, nor does
he believe, from what he has since heard,
that he ever had any such falling, he cer-
tainly would not have conveyed that in
formation to his government, among many
other reasons because 1t would have been
entirely unnecessary, as that inclination is
so strong In those who have 1t that 1t can
not be disguised, and should Mr.. Sedgwlck
be afflicted with 1t he would certainly have
shown 1t In Mexico long before any word
could be received about IL.
Besides, Senor Romero said that 1t would
have been very bad policy on his part to
try and prejudice his government against
a special envoy sent by the United States
under somewhat critical circumstances, with
the probability. or rather certainty, that all
should finally be known here, and would
naturally reflect against his own country
and against himself personally, especially
as nothing could be gained by any such
proceeding. Mr.. Sedgwick was not sent to
originate a question with Mexico, but
therefore the Mexican government and its
representative In Washington could not
have any possible interest or object In plac-
Ing that agent in a false position. On the
contrary, II is natural to suppose that they
would rather try to win his good will and
confidence.
Senior Romero finally said that he has had
sufficient experience to know that such
action as was attributed to him In the in
correct report of Mr.. Chlders's interview
would not have been honorable on his part,
and that for this reason he has consented to
contradict 1t.